Friday, November 21, 2008

Polynege

Origin
France

Contractor/s
NEXTER

Description: Polynege is a family of precision attack munitions featuring modular architecture and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) engagement capability. GIAT Industries is developing Polynege to allow main battle tanks to fire stationary or on the move against NLOS or not visible targets at ranges of up to eight kilometers. The warhead is being developed to take out heavy and light armored vehicles as well as infrastructures. GIAT pursues a low-cost high performance family of munitions through Polygene. The program underwent early live fire validations in 2005 utilizing a surrogate Polynege round.

Specifications
Dimensions: Diameter 120 mm

Performance: Max Range 8,000 m (26,247 ft)

Notes
(*) lead contractor
IOC: Initial Operating Capability
FOC: Full Operating Capability
CEP: Circular Error Probable
Comm: Commissioning Date
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Meters per Second (mps) Kilometers per Hour (kph) Knot (kt) Miles per Hour (mph)
Liter (l) Galon (gl)
Year (yr) Minutes (min) Second (sec)
Shaft-Horse-Power (shp)

Last Updated: Saturday, October 25, 2008

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